The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

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This bilingual edition presents the poetry of the greatest living Albanian poet. Visar Zhiti lived a life of great privation: locked away in dictator Enver Hoxha's prisons, he was not allowed pencil or paper. He wrote his poems in his mind and he and other prisoners committed them to memory. Only when Hoxha fell from power and the political prisoners were freed was Zhiti's magnificent poetry brought to print. Now English-speaking readers can share in the remarkably gentle and imaginatively rich poems produced from these years of suffering.